The functionaries are effectively anonymous, and given arbitrary letters to simplify display and analysis.

A functionary has a set number of attempts (one every 15 minutes, 96 per day) to author a block and request signatures from the other memmbers of the Liquid federation. A failed block can be spurious, but a run of failed rounds indicate of downtime or other issues.

DEGRADED nodes have mastered substantially less blocks than intended in the past 24 hours, a OFFLINE node has signed effectively none in the same period. If 5 functionaries are OFFLINE, the network can not operate.

Blocksigners propose candidate blocks in a round-robin fashion to all other signing participants.Strong Federations III.C

The epoch is a constantly increasing measure of the number of minutes since the sidechains creation, as if all possible blocks had been created at a rate of one per minute. Blocks marked in red were scheduled to be created, but did not materialize for an unknown reason.